Ever had flowers with no smell ?

[Bam-Bhole]

The most unusual experience I got was growing 6 plants - 3 Sativas + 3 Kush. that looked normal during the first few weeks but after the middle of the flowering the anomalies were more + more obvious. Different leave form, one always pushing the leaves towards the sky, all sttems had been bitten or even infested by bugs. It looked asif they used the root to leave egggs or what not. Anyway . Even growing them longer did not really change much in terms of crystals on the surounding leaves, they did get sticky and bigger but still no smell.

I am sure it is not a genetical problem, the feeding, medium and grow conditions were the same as what the good plants had to cope with. The only visible difference was the stem just above the medium surface, so I blameit on bugs but I have no proof for that. I had to throw way a few plants after VEG cause they loooked either too bitten or simply were stunted and too small for theirage and not worth bothering with and talking up space. THese 6 though looked decent for a long time, green leaves, buds appearing etc. Just when the good ones really started getting fatter and more aromatic/sticky the fact, there might be a problem became more obvious. The cured budslook normal and  can be smoked and give up a bit of aroma and a mild hiigh but not high grade. Never heard or read about this phenomena. If you got experience with that or know a link for useful infos in that matter let me know

[PHDin420]

Are we talking indoor or out here?

 

There are a lot of strains that don't have a lot of odor and others that do so it isn't something I find unusual. I have a large collections of different strains grown, dried and cured the exact same way and some you can smell when you walk into the room and others you can't even smell when you open the jar. I used to think it might have something to do with how I was drying or curing them but now I realize that some just smell a lot and others don't and IMO it's odor isn't related to it's potency.

[Bam-Bhole]

Yes different strains have different smells, in this case a well known strain suddenly produced 2 plants with hardly any smell while 1 had the usual nice aroma I got from more than 15 plants of the same strian in former grows not so long ago..months not years. Bought 2 10 packs. That freaked me out..

[PHDin420]

Most strains these days are F1 hybrids and nowhere near stable. It's no different than trying to cross a Black Lab with a Siberian Huskie, the first generation of puppies might look like Black Labs, might look like Siberian Huskies, might look like a perfect mix and anything in between. What makes the issue even worse is that instead of dealing with two stable breeds as the parents, the parents are actually mutts that probably came from mutts before them. The only way you would get similar phenos is if you get feminized seeds and even then they would only be similar if the seeds were produced from pollen of the same plant. That's is a major difference between regular and feminized seeds and some people don't want feminized seeds because they either want the variations in phenos, they think they are more likely to hermie or whatever other reason someone may have.

 

When I say "most strains" I'm not referring to any Green House or Strain Hunter strains because they start with landrace strains to develop their strains and that's one of the reason I'm here. There are a lot of strains that have come from basically mutts and I'm not at all saying that's bad because some of the best strains are. I've seen a lot of seeds from other breeders/seed banks that have an unbelieveable amount of variation and that's why you should go with a more reputable one, so you have a much better idea of what you are getting, if better consistency is what you are after.

[GreenQc]

Smell come from terpenes. you can play with them. Amino acid, some enzyme, vitamin a , heat and more things come in play.

[Tokage]

When I say "most strains" I'm not referring to any Green House or Strain Hunter strains because they start with landrace strains to develop their strains and that's one of the reason I'm here. 

 

Actually they do not always go with land races. But they do keep pretty stable genetics no matter what they do.